Hi, Mikkel Em Quarta 31 Maio 2006 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson escreveu: > Hdparm can NOT control DMA setting for SATA drives. What I have done > is to add "hdc=noprobe" to the Grub boot line for the kernel. hdc is > then treated as a SCSI device, and it uses the BIOS DMA settings. > Hdparm will still say that DMA is not turned on for the drive, but > DMA will be used. (It also says that DMA is off for /dev/sda.) > Thanks. This seems to have solved the problem for the hard drives, but I have yet to find out if there's something more that must be done for the DVD drives, which are still too slow. []'s Marcelo
